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Just a few days left to sign up@for @leftcoastpoweryoga upcoming Yoga Teacher Training! It’s always an honor to contribute to yoga teacher trainings as I know how instrumental they can be with creating a life that aligns with ones true self! Dm me with any questions or go to their website 🌸🕉📿
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Registration is OPEN for our 200Hr Yoga Alliance Accredited Teacher Training... starting January 11th!!
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Payment plans available.
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Thanks @_abandonshipproductions_ for the amazing teaser!

Puts Rose Quartz all over this past week.
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I went to @29rooms last weekend. As I waited to enter this beautiful room designed by @thehoodwitch, I heard 2 sisters talking and one of them kept saying “Lord soften my heart”. 🌹
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Me and my sis started talking to them and I told her I appreciated this prayer and that this prayer felt like the prayer I need daily - to soften soften soften soften.
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Softening my heart is my religion.
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There is nothing to do but keep softening.
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Soften in community with your friends and family. This is radical practice- being soft with each other when we been socialized to be hard. To value softness is our bodies when we live in a culture that says rock hard bodies are most desirable.
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To allow the truth to flow from you even when it is venomous and full of fire. Soften and let it flow like lava.
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To value softness is a paradigm shift
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Love you 🌹
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I’m holding intention to soften tomorrow in community for Sacred Sensuality for Women: Exploring the Senses Through Kundalini Yoga tomorrow Saturday 12/15 at 10am at the @shinecenter 339 15th Street unit 333, Oakland CA 94612. Join community that values softening and our places as sensing feeling women 🙏🏾
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Dm me for more info 🙏🏾🌹❤️
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#sacredsensuality #sensualoakland #sacredoakland #womenscircle #kundaliniyoga #kundaliniyogateacher #kundaliniyogaforwomen #oakland

happy birthday brother ji 🌸🤣✨🐬🤗
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I love you so much. Thank you to your soul for choosing to be embodied as the divine human you live in. I’m so thankful to be your sister 🙏🏾

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The breath gives us access to our sensuality
Sensuality is a gateway to the heart
The heart is the gateway to freedom
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I recently completed a 21 day Tantra inquiry with @faristudiosart . I realized I was typically using lust as a gateway to sensuality. This pattern of jumping to lust energy has been limiting my own awareness of my infinite self. 🌹
Sensuality is a way to interact with ourselves and the whole world. Sensuality is a way to CONNECT. Connection is beyond the physical realm (sometimes). Our bodymindspirits have the potential to experience connection 24/7 and we have the ability to know ourselves as Infinite.
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“The journey of a 1000 miles begin with one single step” - Lao Tzu
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I invite all women feeling called to:
🌹slow down
🌹connect with self
🌹be in community 🌹heal their relationship to”sensuality”
🌹deepen their awareness of sensuality
🌹experience Kundalini Yoga
🌹be fully accepted as they are
To join me Saturday 12/15 at @shinecenter for SACRED Sensuality for Women through Kundalini Yoga at 10am-12:30p
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In this world that seems to be messaging and prioritizing disconnection, let us come together to connect with Self, each other and the most Sacred.
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Info in my bio❤️message me with any questions!
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#oaklandyoga #kundaliniyoga #kundaliniawakening #kundaliniyogateacher #kundaliniyogaforwomen #sacredsensuality #reclaimingsensitive #eastbayyoga #yogaeastbay #oaklandkundaliniyoga
Photo: @judyrukatphotography

I will not tolerate sacred masculine bashing!
When we bash the masculine element, we bash the masculine element that resides in all living beings. I uphold the sacred masculine that resides in me. I’m learning to trust it and hear it’s sacred wisdom. •
I feared this element for years. I confused the violent behaviors of my father with the sacred masculine. Sometimes both reside in us humans.
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It’s not about “men” but it also is about men. I don’t want to talk about men with disdain. Nor do I want to talk about any gender with disdain. All of us our holding sacred medicine and we all deserve to be treated as such.
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Yes indeed some people are “unconscious” that they hold medicine and they may “seem” to be acting “the fool”. If we can see the part of them that is out of touch with their medicine, then we are gaining insight to the part or ourself that is also out of touch with our own medicine. •
Shaming aspects of another is shaming an aspect of ourself.
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I love the divine feminine. I love the divine masculine. I love the divine that is not aligned with those words. I love the divine queer. I love the divine that is constantly recreating itself. •
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I love them all. They are all in me and my teachers. But I can not sit back anymore and watch the sacred masculine disrespected. I am his ally.
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I am feeling very aligned with the sacred Black masculine. I’m so tired and disgusted of how mainstream and humans treat the sacred Black masculine as a “stud”. I am NOT HERE FOR IT! •
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I WILL NOT TREAT THE SACRED MASCULINE AS A FUCK BOY!
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I WILL NOT TREAT THE SACRED MASCULINE IN ME AS A FUCK BOY

There is so much magic in the air. Our psyches are ripe for healing and deeper consciousness. Winter #solstice is my favorite time of year. To me it feels like going into the womb of Source and being born. Join me for a Winter Solstice Kundalini Yoga & Meditation with SOUND HEALING on Saturday 12/22 at 2:30pm at @hotspotyogaoakland. let’s rewrite our programming and delete false narratives and come back to our true nature of pure being. Sat Nam. Registration link in bio 🙏🏾
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Join Shirley for an afternoon of coming together in community.
Under the energy of the last Full Moon of 2018 and Winter Solstice to collectively create a field of healing and reflection.
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Let's gather to elevate ourselves and this most sacred time of the year to get crystal clear before the new year ahead!
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The Winter Solstice is a powerful time of year with the longest nights and shortest days. In the Kundalini Yoga community, yogis gather during the time of solstice to meditate, spend in reflection and to connect; with less talking & more noticing. ❄🕉❄
Sat 12/22 2:30pm-4:30pm
Tea and Cookies will be served
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#kundalini #kundaliniyoga #kundaliniyogateacher #satnam #wintersolstice #oakland #oaklandyoga #oaklandkundaliniyoga #bayareayoga #bayareakundaliniyoga #eastbayyoga #hotspotyo #yogaofcolor

I am so excited to be collaborating with @shinecenter & @drlizdobbins ! As soon as I entered this space, I felt the presence of Laxmi Ma - abundance, beauty and grace! •
I am super excited to bring a morning of exploration of sacred sensuality through Kundalini Yoga, breathwork, chanting and dance at @shinecenter (OAKLAND) on Saturday 12-15 at 10a. Link in my bio! DM me with any questions!
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Sign up for Sacred Sensuality! https://bit.ly/1dhFOS1 .
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Join Shine on Saturday, December 15th from 10-12:30 for a morning of sensual kundalini yoga, meditation and dance with Shirley Johnson @soulisticwellness ✨ It’s an investment of only $45 before December 7th, when registration will go up to $50.
#shine #shinetribe #kundalini #oakland #downtownoakland #meditation #sensuality #femininity #dance #innerwisdom #soul #spirit #shinesisterhood #yoga #kundaliniyoga #kundaliniyogateacher #oaklandyoga #sacredsensuality #bayareayoga

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the autumn equinox marks a time of moving away from summer and toward winter. summer is the time of the year that we have more sunlight, and the winter is the time when we have more moonlight. this transition from summer to winter is marked by autumn equinox, a day where there is equal time of day and night.

our practices for this time of year:

1) gratitude: I believe that the autumn equinox is a the beginning of a new year. look back on the last year of your life and make time this week to reflect on ALL you have to be thankful for. don't forget to look at those challenges that you went through an also find what you have to be thankful for from the obstacles, challenges and heartache from the last year. make this a week to really be aware of all that you are thankful for. practice that gratitude every moment. feel the abundance that your life is.

2) self-care: time to create some new self-care rituals. the seasons require different self-care practices in the same way that your garden requires different attention during different seasons. self-care is an extension of gratitude, it is a practice of being thankful for your precious self. ask yourself what does your self-care look like this season. honor how it may be different than last month. get dedicated and serious about your self-care.

3) clarity: get clear. gratitude and self-care can get us back to what is truly important to us. being clear on what we desire clears the path to create what we desire in our physical world. ask yourself what do you want to be thankful for as your reflect back on the year in september 2015? WHAT are you creating this year? (notice I did not ask HOW - focus on the WHAT, let go of the details of HOW)

libra new moon directions:

the new moon is the most fertile time of the sky. this is the time when you can plant your wishes into the rich and fertile soil of the Heavens. libra is all about relationships, marriage, harmony, and balance. so this is the PERFECT time to reflect and invoke the desires you have around these areas in your life. the exact time for the new moon is tuesday 9.23.14 at 11:14p PDT/ wednesday 9.24.14 at 2:14a EST

here are some tools on doing that:1) create some quiet time while the moon is not void: wednesday 9.24.14 after 2:56a PT/5:56a EST or all day thursday 9.25.14. find a quiet spot to spend some time in silence adding any rituals that you like. for new moon, i always like to clean and clear my altar by burning palo santo and sitting in silent meditation. i also suggest some of the following, but do what works for you:* turn off all electronics (no facebooking while doing this)* take a bath with sea salts and ylang ylang essential oils (or other oils you like)* wear all white* ask others you live with to honor you and not disturb you while in your process* light candles, incense, sage and play music that inspires you

2) write your new moon check: this is one of my favorite rituals for the new moon that i do monthly and is a practice in trust, abundance and receiving support from the Unknown. do this as close to the exact time of the new moon that you can. when you write this check, practice BELIEVING in being supported, even if it is difficult.

3) write your new moon wishes: this requires time, space and clarity. your new moon wishes are what you DESIRE for the new moon cycle/month. you especially want to focus on the energy of the sign of the new moon (in this case everything pertaining to relationships, balance, partnerships an harmony). write these wishes in the present tense, first person and using phrases such as:I wishI wantI desireI call forththis cultivates awareness around the relationship between wanting and receiving. always wish for happiness and health, focus down to 10 wishes or less. there is NO wrong or right way to do this! Just BE! Follow your intuition, get out of any formal academic-type thinking. Flow and find your ritual.